Collection Highlights
Mrs. Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1786-1851)
Date:
ca. 1825
Object Number:
1920.5
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
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The News Boy Game
Object Number:
2000.336
Date:
1895
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, wood, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 7/8 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. ( 2.2 x 19 x 19 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "THE/ NEWS/ BOY/ GAME/ COPYRIGHT 1895 BY PARKER BROTHERS, SALEM, MASS., U.S.A."
Inscriptions:
In pencil: underside of board: "Loren Ward/ Naples/ N.Y." and "R.J.D. #26"
Description:
Board game with four wooden playing pieces, a cardboard spinner with a metal arrow and a paper board applied to the bottom half of the paper covered cardboard box; chromolithographed board with a winding path of red and blue circles leading from the 'Newsboys Home" to the 'Book and Stationary store"; cover lithographed with images of a boy running behind a three people with an armload of papers, and a boy hawking papers over a newspaper labeled "The Times"; box lithographed with the inscription, "THE/ NEWS/ BOY/ GAME/ COPYRIGHT 1895 BY PARKER BROTHERS, SALEM, MASS., U.S.A.".
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
